GOD AND THE MAN A ROMANCE

1881·London

by Buchanan. Robert

London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. Three volumes. Publisher's smooth cocoa-brown cloth, lettered in gilt with decorations in black. Frontispieces and plates. Slight hand-soiling to cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends, slightly cocked, front inner hinge of third volume invisibly tightened; a very good set. First edition of what many regard as the Scottish poet/novelist's most durable work of fiction, "a study in the futile psychology of hatred with a terrific action climax in the polar wastelands" - The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. This is the work Buchanan dedicated "To An Old Enemy" (i.e. Rossetti) in contrition for the controversy he ignited with his attack on THE FLESHLY SCHOOL OF POETRY (1872). This copy bears Buchanan's presentation inscription in the first volume: "To the Rev. John Page Hopps, [/] from his fellow Pilgrim, [/] Robert Buchanan [/] 'Strangers & Pilgrims in the Earth' [/] Heb. XI.13. Nov. 6. 1881." The recipient was the ultra-liberal Unitarian minister, who was at the time serving in Leicester. The presentation inscription in Wolff's set is also dated on 6 November, and like this set, his is in this decorated brown cloth, rather than the blue cloth that Sadleir posited might be the primary binding. Wolff offers evidence suggesting the more likely possibility that copies in this binding are primary. Like many of Buchanan's triple- deckers, a scarce book. While NCBEL and the bibliography associated with Robertbuchannan.co.uk identify which of his novels were published in 3-volume format, they overlook that fact in the case of this title. OCLC/Worldcat locates 13 sets. NCBEL III:616. WOLFF 896. SADLEIR 382. OCLC: 5226241. (Inventory #: WRCLIT75451)

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